[HPforGrownups] Re: Still-Life With Memory Charm

[Michelle Strauss]

No: HPFGUIDX 36807

GulPlum Had wrote:
>>I'd go a step further. How's this for an idea?

Neville suffers not from a memory *charm*, but a memory *curse*.

What I mean by that, is that the trauma of his parents' torture
hasn't been wiped from his mind, but on the contrary, has been
deliberately embedded in such detail and so inextricably, that every
waking moment, he relives the experience over and over and over again.

Thus his short-term memory has been shot, his self-confidence is
shot, and his whole self-image is damaged. Secondarily, his psyche
reasons that if this is what being "powerful" can do to you, he wants
no part of it. <<

I guess that makes sense, but...
What do you call something that's kinda both a curse and a charm? A block 
perhaps?
You see, I think that Neville did the memory thing to himself; only he 
didn't use any magic to do it. The way I figure it, if he ever finds a way 
to really *deal* with his parents' fate and having (possibly) witnessed it, 
then his memory would visibly improve. I'm not saying that he conciously 
forgetts, or that his short term memory's shot, but rather that he has 
problems recalling memories because his unconcious won't relenquish its hold 
on his long term memory. He knows its there, he just can't find where it got 
stored. Simply put, there is an unconcious block stopping (possibly 
damaging) long term memories from being recalled lest the Trauma be 
unleashed. Everything that may unleash the Trauma is locked away from his 
concious mind to prevent this; kind of a mini Fudge if you will.
Which is something that sort of furthers my idea of REDEMPTION (Real Evil 
Depends on Emotional, Mental, and Physical Tourture to Instil Orderly 
Notions) if you happen to look at it the right way. In this case, the 
orderly notion would Power belongs fully to Evil and the tourture would be a 
combination of Emotional and Mental.

chynarose
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